Durham v. People

Citations

• 49 Ill. 233

Syllabus

<p>Bastardy—of proof that the complaining witness was unmarried. In a prosecution for bastardy, the complaining witness spoke of herself as an unmarried woman at the time of the trial, and of the defendant as having “kept company” with her for a year and a half: Held, that the jury might properly understand this as meaning that the defendant had been paying his addresses to her with a view to marriage, thus implying she was an unmarried woman.</p>